Word: antonia
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WERE THERE any women in 17th century England?" asks a man as he disappears into his men's club. With this anecdote, Antonia Fraser explains the purpose of her latest book. In The Weaker Vessel, Fraser uses diaries, letters and popular ballads to recreate the condition of women in British society from the reign of Queen Elizabeth to that of Queen Anne...
...LADY ANTONIA Fraser site in the Harvard Bookstore Cafe, graciously signing copies of her books, sipping white wine and smiling at the long line of admirerers. She sighs as a woman asks her to sign her daughter's copy. "My daughter keeps on writing books. I want her to have a baby." This is the same woman who writes of such heroines as Mary Queen of Scots. But she is quick to point out that she is also a wife and mother...
...Antonia Fraser, 52, author of the newly published The Weaker Vessel, on her efforts to be an objective feminist historian: "Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God if she exists...
...themselves with scythes and pitchforks, and on one occasion threatened to burn the houses, drown the servants and cut off the head of one of their oppressors, a certain Captain Thomas Lovell. "It was only the intervention of 'a gentlewoman' who happened to be passing," reports Lady Antonia, "which dissuaded the women from their violent course, otherwise they would have done the captain 'some great mischief...
NONFICTION: Bloods, Wallace Terry The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944, Lucjan Dobroszycki, Editor ∙ The Death Merchant, Joseph C. Goulden ∙ Josephine Herbst, Elinor Langer ∙ The Weaker Vessel, Antonia Fraser Writers at Work, George Plimpton, Editor